Improved meat-cutter



AUGUST KL'EIN, OF N-EW YORK,- N. Y.

Leners Poem No. 93,094, dans -.my 27, 1869.

.IMIPROVED MEAT-CUTTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part f the same.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, AUGUST KLEIN, of New York, in the' county of New York, and State of New York, have invented Ja new and improved Sausage-Meat Cutter; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others-skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication, in Which- Figure lis a side view of my improved machine, parts being broken away to show the construction.

Figure 2 is ,a top view of the same.

Similar letters .of referentie indicate*corresponding parts. v

My invention. has for its object to furnish a' simple and convenient machine, by means of which the meat may be readily and thoroughly cut, and which shall, at the same time, be easily operated; and

It consists inthe construction and combination of the various parts of the machine, as hereinafter more fully described'. o

A is 4the frame of the machine, which maybe made in the form of a box, and divided longitudinally by a partition, a, into two compartments, one of ,which .may be-used t'o contain the unchopped, and the other the chopped meat.

B is the chopping-block, in the centre of the lower end of which is formed a hole or socket, to receive the spindle, upon which it revolves, and which secured to the box or frame A.

The upper end of the block B is made with a ange around its edge, as shown in figs. 1 and 2, to keep the 'meat in place while being out or chopped.

Around the edge of the lower end of the block B is formed, or to it is attached or fonned, a gear-wheel,

El, into the teeth of which mesh the teeth of the gearwheel D, attached to the inner end of the shaft E.

The shaft E revolves in bearings in the ame or box A a', and to itsout-er. end is attached a large gearwheel, F, to which is attached the crank-pin G, by means of which the machine is operated.

Into the teeth of the crank gear-wheel F mesh the teeth of the smaller Agear-wheels I, attached to the outer ends of the shafts J, placed, one upon each sidev of the shaft E, and which revolve in bearings in the box or frame A c.

To the'inner-ends of the shafts J are attached cranks or crank-Wheels K, to the crank-pins of which are pivoted the lower ends of the connecting-rods L, the upper ends of which-are adjnstablypivoted to the beam M, so that the stroke or throw of said beam may be regulated as desired.I

The middle part of the beam M is made in the form of a frame, m', to which is attached a series of curved knives, N, as shown in igs. 1 and 2.

- The ends of the beam M are slotted, to receive the curved-uprights 0, and are provided with guide-pins,

which pass through curved slots in the said curved The combination of the senes of curved knives N,

beam M m', curved uprights or guides Q,Q connectiug. rods L, cranks or crank-wheels K, shafts J, and gearwheels I, with each other, with the revolving block B, and with the crank gear-.Wheel 'G F, from which the block B is revolved, snbstautially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.`

The above specication of my. invention signed by me, this 2d day of J une, 1869.

\ AUGUST KLEIN.

Witnesses:

FRANK BLOCKLEY, JAMES T. GRAHAM. 

